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Monday 2 March, 7.30pm: RADICAL by Marcus Taylor
Monday 2 March, 7.30pm RADICAL by Marcus Taylor RADICAL explores nationhood, xenophobia and extremism in the UK, through the comedic...
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Feb 25, 20201 min read


Talk with publisher Anne Samson: Monday 24 February
Monday 24 February at 7.30pm Talk with Anne Samson from publishing house TSL TSL Publications is a small publishing house working in...
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Feb 20, 20201 min read


Short play contest: Michael's a winner
Congratulations to Michael Barry whose short play Descent won the first Player Playwrights short play contest of 2020. It was a hard...
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Feb 20, 20201 min read
Monday 17 February: Player Playwright short play competition: Families
Short play contest: Families Monday 17 February 7.30pm The first Player Playwrights competition of 2020 . This is an open competition of...
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Feb 11, 20201 min read
Winner of competition of competitions: Meryl Walker
Congratulations to Meryl Walker whose short play The Violinist was the out front winner of our annual competitions of competitions. The...
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Feb 8, 20201 min read
Independence Day by Matthew Partridge : Monday 10 February
Monday 10 February Independence Day by Matthew Partridge Central bankers Thomas and Maisie have a simple task. Just go down to London to...
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Feb 6, 20201 min read
Monday 3 February: Competition of Competitions
The Competition of Competitions is the play-off of the six winners and runners-up from the three short play competitions of 2019. Come...
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Jan 30, 20201 min read
Monday 27 January, 7.30pm Phoebe by Ian Reade
Phoebe is a dark, gritty play featuring murder, overt sexual references and incest. It is a very adult play for our times. Some scenes...
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Jan 23, 20201 min read
Monday 20 January: Anubis by Neil Weatherall
Anubis is a short, darkly twisted psychological comedy set in a dystopian near-future in which Artificial Intelligence threatens...
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Jan 14, 20201 min read
Monday 20 January, 7.30pm: Anubis by Neil Wetherall
Anubis is a short, darkly twisted psychological comedy set in a dystopian near-future in which Artificial Intelligence threatens...
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Jan 14, 20201 min read
FLANAGAN: Monday 13 January, 7.30pm
Player Playwrights returns with a new programme of new plays and events on Monday 13 January. It kicks off with FLANAGAN, a contentious...
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Dec 28, 20191 min read


Awards ceremony and Xmas party - Monday 9 December, 7.30pm
Monday 9 December, 7.30pm - Awards ceremony and Xmas party Come and join us for The Player Playwrights Christmas Party and Awards...

Caleb Estes
Dec 4, 20191 min read
Works in Progress: Monday 2 December, 7.30pm
Monday 2 December, 7.30pm Works in Progress A new idea for Players Playwrights: a chance for some of our Members to try out excerpts from...

Caleb Estes
Nov 27, 20191 min read
Germkillers in America by Ronald Fernee Monday 25 November 2019
GERMKILLERS IN AMERICA is the first installment of two, 45 minute radio dramas, based on the almost forgotten, true story of the Oxford...

Caleb Estes
Nov 19, 20191 min read
Players Playwrights' Annual General Meeting (AGM) Monday, 18 November, 7.30pm
This coming Monday, 18 November, we hold the Players Playwrights' Annual General Meeting (AGM) at our usual venue upstairs at the North...

Caleb Estes
Nov 17, 20191 min read


History As It Wasn't: The results are in!
Congratulation to Meryl Walker and Phil Mison who came first and second, respectively, in our latest short play contest, History As It...

Caleb Estes
Nov 13, 20191 min read
Player Playwrights competition: History as it Wasn’t: 7.30pm Monday 11 November
Player Playwrights competition: History as it Wasn’t Short original plays from our Members about how history might have turned out if a...

Caleb Estes
Nov 5, 20191 min read
VISITING TIME by Melville Lovatt, 7.30pm, Monday 4 November
Stella returns to visit the husband and children she walked out on many years ago. Her visit exposes a monstrous fiction, her past...

Caleb Estes
Oct 29, 20191 min read
The Quarrel by Jane Weymouth & Xq28 by Dan Horrigan. Monday 28 October, 7.30pm
The Quarrel by Jane Weymouth Janice has always had a conflicted relationship with her mother. In adulthood this reaches breaking point....

Caleb Estes
Oct 22, 20191 min read
Situation Dog by Ian Reade / Monday 21 October, 7.30pm
Monday 21 October, 7.30pm Situation Dog by Ian Reade "Situation Dog” by Ian Reade is a one man show that was described by Papatango...

Caleb Estes
Oct 14, 20191 min read
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